Everybody needs somebody

Slides to my talk at BerlinJS in March 2019 where I talked about social anxiety, tech events and my privat project Conference Buddy 🐶

Conference Buddy provides a platform to find companions for tech conferences. It's for everyone who wants to attend a tech conference but is afraid or not compfortable going alone.

Transcript

1. Everybody needs somebody
3. By the way: I'm Mirjam. ! " Twitter: @mirjam_diala
4. I don’t order food.
5. Social Anxiety
6. He dare not come into company for fear he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gestures or speeches, or be sick; he thinks every man observeth him. — Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy - 1621
7. Evolution, duh!
8. The "Illness of missed opportunities".
9. Missing chances.
10. I complained.
11. Heureka
13. !
15. ! #ConfBuddy
17. Conference Buddies
18. What you can do.
19. Be attentive.
20. Share.
21. Introduce.
22. Follow the Pacman rule1. 1 http://ericholscher.com/blog/2017/aug/2/pacman-rule-conferences/
23. Be a Conference Buddy.
24. And if you are like me I want to tell you 3 things
25. You’re not alone.
26. People want to support you.
27. Put yourself out there. You can do it!
28. Thanks twitter: @ConfBuddy - web: conferencebuddy.io